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| Apr 20, 2025 | A Shein-shaped question looms large over London | With UK regulators said to have rubber-stamped its application to list in London, Shein’s long-awaited blockbuster IPO is closer than ever. But with questions over its links to forced labour continuing to dog the Chinese-founded firm, and r... |
| Jan 30, 2025 | The Hidden Metrics Your Tech Startup Should Track in 2025 | Remember when tracking website visitors and social media followers felt like enough? Those days are long gone. In 2025, UK tech startups are drowning in data but starving for insights. While your dashboard might be lighting up with likes an... |
| May 29, 2024 | nShift Reveals 5 Steps for Retailer Success During Peak Season | 95% of shoppers have abandoned their cart
63% of shoppers say delivery choice is the most important factor when shopping online
High delivery costs compel 62% of shoppers to abandon purchases
With retailers’ preparations for peak shopping s... |
| Feb 20, 2024 | The Body Shop: How the Ethical Beauty Pioneer’s Fortunes Soured, and What Happens Next | 7 Mins Read The Body Shop has announced that its UK and German operations have gone into administration, with its business in other countries also in jeopardy. How did it get here, and what’s next?
A pioneer of cruelty-free beauty and a bel... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Ikea Raised Some Of Its Prices By 80 Percent: Here’s Where To Shop For Affordable Furniture Instead | PH by The NovogratzThe Novogratz |
| May 23, 2022 | How is Crypto Adoption Spreading? | Do you remember the early days of the internet? When Alta Vista was king, when chatting with strangers was still novel, and when toxic comment sections hadn’t been invented just yet? Then in the blink of an eye, we had massive adoption and ... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | Has The Growth In Online Shopping Provided A Golden Ticket For Fraudsters? | |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Microsoft : Reducing the load on frontline workers with the right management technology | One of the few silver linings from the pandemic has been greater recognition of the critical role frontline workers play, whether it's in a hospital, shop, or factory. For my first blog post of 2022, I want to share my observations on the i... |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Zebra Technologies : KAIZEN and the Art of Inventory Improvement | In the 2021 ECR Stock Accuracy Survey, there was a proven correlation between sales levels and stock accuracy. It was a substantial uplift too, with reports indicating sales gains between 3.83-8.38%. Yet in a recently released Retail Week 2... |
| May 28, 2021 | Discovery commerce is ‘goldmine’ for SA’s e-shopping market | Discovery commerce, a growing frontier in SA’s e-commerce sector, is resetting the rules of engagement in online shopping, helping retailers increase their revenues while empowering consumers.
This was the word from Elizma Nolte, head of ma... |
| May 9, 2021 | No Need To Throw Away Unwanted Fashion With Returnado’s New Platform | We love buying things. But what happens when we don't want them any more? © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Amazon Ventures Into the Beauty Industry as it Opens a Salon in London, to Feature Latest Technology For Hair Care | Sieeka Khan, Tech Times 20 April 2021, 10:04 am
(Photo : Pexels/Engin Akyurt) Amazon hair salon in London
On Apr. 20, Amazon announced that it is set to open its first-ever hair salon in East London as the tech and e-commerce giant continue... |
| Apr 14, 2021 | Kroger launches its first Ocado-powered ‘shed’, a massive, robot-filled fulfillment center in Ohio | After inking a deal to work together almost three years ago, U.S. supermarket chain Kroger and U.K. online grocer Ocado today took the wraps off the first major product of that deal. Kroger has launched a new Ocado-powered customer fulfillm... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Early investors in Deliveroo eye 60,000% return on their money | Early investors in Deliveroo could make around a 60,000% return on their investment when the food delivery company floats on the stock exchange in the coming months — an example of the staggering returns that are possible when tech investme... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Shakespeare: Paperchase look set for a stronger 2021 | Stationary retailer Paperchase has struggled throughout the pandemic, and was at the brink of administration at the start of this year. The chain has now been rescued in a deal which will save 1,000 jobs and 90 of its 125 stores. |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Asos purchases Arcadia’s principal brands to improve its own quality perception | Online fashion giant Asos has announced it has beat competitors to purchase the four main Arcadia brands – Miss Selfridge, HIIT, Topman and Topshop – in order to become the number one fashion destination for young, fashion-conscious shopper... |
| Dec 31, 2020 | What The European Union And China Investment Agreement Will Mean For Future Retail Trade Deals | After seven years of negotiation, 27 nations within the European Union have come together with China ... [+] in forming a bilateral trade agreement.Anadolu Agency via Getty Images |
| Jun 7, 2020 | Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: Why June Rent Payments Are The Next Big Challenge Facing Retail | NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 16: A sign in a window advertises an empty store for rent in the West ... [+] Village of Manhattan on October 16, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| May 14, 2019 | Marks & Spencer инвестировал в российский стартап по созданию 3D-моделей тела человека | Фото: iStock
Британский ретейлер Marks & Spencer инвестировал в компанию Texel, которая занимается созданием цифровых аватаров при помощи технологии 3D-сканирования. Об этом сообщил Retail Week.
Технология Texel помогает подобрать покуп... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | The Fate of the Office in the ‘Post-Work Era’ | With the rise of automation, human work may soon be a thing of the past. But when we reach this ‘post-work era’, what will become of the millions of offices that line our skylines?
Professor Moshe Vardi of Rice University estimates that 50 ... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | AmazonFresh launches grocery deliveries in London | AmazonFresh, the e-commerce behemoth’s grocery service, will start operating in parts of north and east London today. Deliveries will first be available in 69 postcodes before expanding to other parts of the city.
AmazonFresh is only availa... |
| May 17, 2016 | RealWire announces appointment of Emily Gosling as Managing Director | Lincoln, UK, 17th May 2016 – RealWire, the award-winning online press release distribution service announces the appointment of Emily Gosling (formerly Aitchison) as Managing Director.
Gosling, has been part of the RealWire team for over ni... |
| Feb 26, 2016 | Argos shows real-time availability of products in Google | Argos has partnered with Google and now shows the product availability from its local stores in real-time in the search results. Google also runs tests with other retail partners in the UK, as well with companies in Germany, France, Austral... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | Undercharged deliveries cost supermarkets €415mn every year | By running their online businesses unprofitably, supermarkets in the United Kingdom are losing around 300 million pounds (418 million euros) every year, new figures have revealed. Instead of charging consumers a fair fee for delivering groc... |
| Oct 20, 2015 | Royal Mail extends its Local Collect network | British postal service company Royal Mail will further extend its Local Collect network, by opening new collection points at more than 1,222 Royal Mail delivery offices. Amazon will be the first retailer to make us of this extended network,... |
| Jul 22, 2015 | Tesco’s Harris + Hoole coffee shops lose founders and bosses Nick, Andrew and Laura Tolley | |
| Jul 10, 2015 | Brits don’t want to pay for click and collect | Three-quarters of British consumers believe they shouldn’t have to pay for a click-and-collect service. If they order something online and then decide to pick it up in-store, consumers think it’s more than acceptable to get that order witho... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | Lidl considers move into ecommerce to boost UK growth | Lidl is growing rapidly in the United Kingdom and to continue this further, the discount retailer is thinking about a move into ecommerce. The online activities could be a new way to compete with the Big Four of UK supermarkets: Tesco, Sain... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | UK retailer Dixons Carphone to operate new Sprint stores in the US | reader comments 8 with 6 posters participating
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Dixons Carphone—the recently combined juggernaut of electronics and mobile phone retailers Dixons and Carphone Warehouse—is l... |
| Jun 22, 2015 | Tesco and Sainsbury’s quit click & collect experiment at London tubes | Tesco and Sainsbury’s are no longer offering a click & collect service for their customers at Tube stations in London. The two major supermarket chains have withdrawn from the tie-up with Transport for London (TfL) because too few custo... |
| Feb 12, 2015 | “Remove the barriers hindering pan-European ecommerce trade” | The British Retail Consortium urges the Government to make steps in consolidating cross-border consumer right and to push the EU to remove the barriers hindering online trade between European countries. Also a mini-Common European Sales Law... |
| Sep 19, 2014 | Three Myths About Product Discounting And Why You Should Do It | By Firas Kittaneh |
| Jul 28, 2014 | Topshop and Topman partner with Zalando | British brands Topshop and Topman will launch on the fast-growing fashion website Zalando. This will happen in September and is part of the brands’ expansion drive, as they will launch in selected European countries, not including the Unite... |
| Dec 27, 2013 | JD Sports launches in-store PayPal payments | The U.K. sports fashion chain JD Sports has launched mobile payments across its six brands and 630 U.K. stores through a partnership with PayPal, Retail Week reports.
The U.K.-based magazine said the new service enables shoppers to pay usin... |
| Feb 14, 2010 | Researchers find security flaw in chip-and-PIN payment system | The United Kingdom's Retail Week reports that researchers at Cambridge University have tricked a chip-and-PIN payment system into authenticating a payment when no valid PIN is present.
The exploit uses what is called a "man-in-the-midd... |
| Retail Reimagined: Building the Shopping Centre 2.0 | In the latest instalment of our Retail Reimagined series, Luke Tugby maps out the shopping centre of the future.
The UK’s shopping centre scene is becoming increasingly polarised.
As smaller malls in secondary and tertiary towns and citie... |
| Торговая война США и Китая «взрастила гиганта»: история онлайн-магазина Shein, который обходит по продажам Zara и H&M Статьи редакции | Он продаёт топы за пару долларов, при этом оценивается в $30 млрд и бьёт рекорды Amazon. Как благодаря отлаженной логистике, налоговым лазейкам и ИИ-технологиям китайский бренд утроил продажи и что ждёт его в будущем — в пересказе Bloomberg... |
| Why is your Tesco Meal Deal packaging ending up in Turkey? | Supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury’s have been criticised for allegedly misleading customers about their front-of-store recycling schemes.
The Everyday Plastic campaign group and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) investigatio... |
| Asda reportedly considering stricter sick leave rules | The supermarket giant Asda has reportedly announced plans to change its current sick leave policy as it seeks to improve the customer experience and restore operational focus.
According to The Telegraph, the company plans to roll out strict... |
| Toys ‘R’ Us joins list of iconic brands returning to the high street this year | Today’s high street is unrecognisable from two decades ago. Across every UK town, beloved brands have gone into administration, replacing shop windows with shutters. That could be about to change this year, however, thanks to a wave of reta... |
| From free returns to fraud — the growing cost of “refund hacks” for SMEs | Refund hacks — otherwise known as refund abuse — is something that’s been costing businesses greatly in the last year.
With this issue becoming more common, ecommerce businesses and online retailers are stuck between trying to maintain a po... |
| JD Sports v Manchester United: which “return to office” policy is an own goal? | Remote work has gone from the “new normal”, to the new nuisance for employers. Many high-profile companies are now rejecting home working. But without recorded case studies to rely on, their game plans are differing wildly.
Last weekend, JD... |
| Headed for administration, why did The Body Shop fail? | High street stalwart The Body Shop is teetering on the brink, with the business looking likely to join the deluge of UK brands entering into administration.
A tough period of trading has compelled The Body Shop’s new owners, private equity ... |
| UK brands that have been saved from administration | Many beloved high street stores have come and gone in recent years, with many falling into administration since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Administration is never where a business wants to be, but when a company becomes insolvent, employees are... |
